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My dear friend, I am very big fan of the back-pedaling you're doing here. I want to also point a couple things out to you.
This is blatantly untrue. You can certainly play the post-hoc "oh but I meant..." game and slowly change your argument to be something different, but what you said originally is not what you are suddenly now claiming here and your lack of logical precision or clarity in the claims you make is certainly not my fault or my problem. Consider taking a course in mathematics to firm up your logical argumentation skills?
Let me remind you of a couple other claims you have made beyond what you are suddenly now pretending you claimed:
Of course you have made a bunch of other claims in your weird psycho-babble word salad too. These are just some highlights.
Lets consider this thing you just said here though: "what the math world identifies as infinite, is not actually infinite when applied to the real world". You know, this sounds very familiar. It is almost like my very first comment to you was "It really depends on what you mean by infinity and division here." Real wild stuff huh? Almost like it is important to be clear on the definitions and senses of the words we are using right? Like we should be clear on what exact definitions we mean yeah? Hmm... This sounds so familiar.
As much as I'd love to make fun of you more while you rediscover arguments for/against mathematical platonism I'd rather move on.
Loving the assumption here that I have no background in CS or software engineering.
I don't think claiming practical experience as an engineer as justification for misunderstanding and drawing faulty conclusions from basic mathematics is really the gotcha you think it is here. On the contrary, if you really do have a background in engineering, then you should know better and it is now my opinion that the people who have taught you mathematics and the basics of engineering have done you a serious disservice for not teaching you better. Misunderstanding mathematical models is textbook bad engineering. What you are doing here is using your engineering background to justify why it is okay for you to be a shitty engineer.
Who is having the trouble? I'm not the one stumbling over basic things that children learn in high school algebra like what the definition of a function is.
Oh yes, clearly my tone is insulting, but yours has never once been insulting. You pure beautiful angel you. If only the rest of us could be such a pure and sweet soul like you. I'll be sure to only speak to you in the kindest and sweetest ways so that I don't hurt your very precious and delicate feelings in the future.
I'm sorry kind and gentle prince, but I can't help but point out that the projection here from you is very entertaining. I'm so very sorry for any hurt this may cause your poor delicate feelings.